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As a Senior Project Manager at Cook Children's, you will be an independent contributing IT professional within the Project Management family. The Senior Project Manager plays a critical role in the coordination and completion of a variety of IT projects within the Cook Children's Health Care System. The Senior Project Manager will work closely with other IT teams and operational stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered completely within scope and on time. The Senior Project Manager supports new and existing hospitals, hospital services, new and existing clinics and inpatient and outpatient department implementations, Epic Upgrades and Epic Modules, as well as optimization projects for the Epic teams (Patient Access, Revenue Cycle, Inpatient, Ambulatory, Anesthesia/OR, Ancillary, Training, Data Integration, Database/ETL, Digital Experience, Business Intelligence, Security and Technical Teams). The Senior Project Manager must have excellent organization and communication skills and have experience in working with team members of different groups to achieve quality results in a timely manner. The Senior Project Manager will be expected to manage and own projects that are high visibility, larger, more complex, and potentially more sensitive in nature. This Senior Project Manager will manage the IT build supporting new construction projects to include such tasks as participation in construction design sessions, onsite walk-throughs, assessment of build work, working closely with construction project management team and general contractors.

Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree required.

• Position requires 10 years or more of direct experience.

• 5 or more years working within a PMO.

• Experience with software systems' implementation lifecycle.

• Experience in Waterfall project management methodology, Agile methodology experience is a plus.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and other subject matter experts.

• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, prioritize work, manage time and respond effectively to a rapidly changing environment.

• Ability to exercise sound political and environmental judgment as appropriate to support successful project implementation.

• Demonstrated knowledge and skills in assessing and mitigating risks through risk planning.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively.

• Experience in IT infrastructure and/or application builds for new construction is preferred.

Certification/Licensure:

• PMP Certification required.

• CSM Certification preferred.

About Us:

Cook Children's Health Care System

Cook Children's Health Care System offers a unique approach to caring for children because we are one of the country's leading integrated pediatric health care delivery organizations. Patients benefit from the integrated system because it allows Cook Children's to use all of its resources to treat a patient and allows for easy communication between the various companies by physicians with a focus on caring for children and adolescents.

Cook Children's is an EOE/AA, Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.